 Christine Kessides joined ECSIE in October 2005 as Lead Infrastructure Economist and Urban Specialist. Prior to this current position, she served as urban economist and senior urban advisor in the Urban Development Anchor unit of TWU, where she worked on urban strategy, policy, and peer reviewing for the sector with a focus on urban infrastructure and poverty issues. She authored the Bank's urban and local government strategy, Cities in Transition (2000), co-authored the urban poverty chapter of the PRSP Sourcebook, and wrote the urban chapter of the 2004 World Development Report on institutions and sustainable development as a member of the WDR core team. Before focusing on urban development she had various assignments in the Infrastructure Network/Transport-Water-Urban Department working in the Director's front office as economist and economic advisor. In that capacity she served on a Bank Group task force on private participation in infrastructure in 1997 and as co-director of the 1994 WDR on Infrastructure. She has written several working papers on infrastructure and on urban issues. She was previously a country economist for Hungary and Romania from 1984-91, and country economist for Burkina Faso. She joined the Bank as a Young Professional.
Current work program: Task manager for urban and municipal development ESW and project development, with initial focus on the Western Balkans; coordinating with PREM, DEC and IEF on cross sectoral infrastructure studies and issues, and interfacing with the regional chief economist's office on general business for the department as a member of the management team
Strengths: Urban development policy and strategy, urban economic analysis, and institutional analysis of infrastructure
Education: M.P.A, International Development, the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; B.S., Northwestern University
Languages (other than English): French (intermediate-advanced)
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